In 1868, seven members of the Reno gang stole $98,000 from a railway car at Marshfield, Ind. It was the original "Great Train Robbery."

In 1924, the discovery of the body of Bobby Franks, 13, of Chicago led to the arrest and conviction of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. (They were sentenced to 99 years in prison for the so-called thrill killing.)

In 1972, Richard Nixon became the first U.S president to visit Moscow.

In 1992, Johnny Carson ended his nearly 30-year career as host of "The Tonight Show."

In 2002, authorities in Birmingham, Ala., convicted a fourth suspect in a 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls. Bobby Frank Cherry, 71, a former Ku Klux Klansman, was sentenced to life in prison.

In 2003, Annika Sorenstam became the first woman in 59 years to compete in a PGA event but her 5-over-par 145 through two rounds of the Bank of America Colonial tournament failed to make the cut.

In 2009, General Motors struck a deal with union workers in which GM would finance half of a $20 billion retiree health benefit obligation with company stock.

In 2011, the deadliest tornado to strike the United States in half a century roared into the heart of Joplin, Mo., with winds of 200 mph. It killed more than 160 people, injured about 1,100 others and destroyed nearly one-third of the city.

In 2013, two men armed with knives and a cleaver killed British soldier Lee Rigby on a southeast London street. (The attackers, who said they were avenging the killing of Muslims by Britain's military, were both sentenced to life in prison.)

A thought for the day: "There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why ... I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" – Robert F. Kennedy

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